You have to get on a boat to see this Maori rock carving at Mine Bay in Taupo. These carvings (you can perhaps only see the carved face in this picture, but there are other carvings on the rock as well) were done by a "master carver" called Matahi Whakataka-Brightwell, and it took him and his team four years to complete all of the artworks in 1980. Placed about 14 meters above the waters of Lake Taupo, the main carving you see here is a likeness of the legendary Ngatoroirangi, a visionary Maori navigator who guided the Tuwharetoa and Te Arawa tribes to the Taupo area over a thousand years ago.
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